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For some performers, making recordings is their bread and butter. Violinist Joshua Bell, on the other hand, is somewhat ambivalent about walking i...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
To get an orchestra of 60 or 100 players to play like one is the eternal challenge for a conductor. Every orchestra is different but conductor JoA...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :29
Whether you're making a speech or a presentation in public, you hope you've got some friends in the audience. That extra support is something viol...
- Added: Nov 01, 2008
- Length: :21
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen comes from a musical family, and "family time" meant playing chamber music at home. She says working in that more in...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
For your Fundraising campaign, violinist Joshua Bell asks your listeners to complete the Public Radio Listening-Funding circle. Use this 27 second...
Bought by WAUS FM, KZYX, KUHF, WSKG, North State Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
- Purchases: 16
Pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy is not quite sure what's more amazing - that Beethoven wrote so many remarkable pieces of music, or that h...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :22
The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an all-Bach CD that includes the Partita Number 2. At the heart of the Partita is a slow and meditative move...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
Composer Jennifer Higdon is one of the busiest, most performed and most acclaimed American composers today. From her vantage point, she understand...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
The musician's life is a humbling up and down journey towards perfection, or at least musical expression on the highest level. If you don't get it...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :27
Every performer has their calling card or label for their style of playing. Some are known for raising the roof with virtuoso flash and fireworks;...
- Added: Sep 30, 2008
- Length: :24
It took a nudge from his father to finally get Steven Isserlis to record the Bach Cello Suites. He was in his late 40's. For Steven Isserlis, the...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :18
How do you get your day started? A strong cup of coffee, maybe a good jog? A perfect, sugary doughnut? Morning Edition? Pianist Anne-Marie McDe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2008
- Length: :20
There's a reason you hear some pieces of music everywhere - in elevators, hotel lobbies, while you're on hold with customer service and as the brid...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: :25
When pianist Orli Shaham walks on stage to perform, she always says the same two words to her musical partner before playing the first note: "Have...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: :21
Before becoming the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop held leadership positions with the Long...
- Added: Apr 01, 2008
- Length: :24
The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra plays to the beat of a different conductor - they don't have one. Each member is a conductor or a "leader" as they p...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
As one builds and then maintains a career, there's the hope we'll maintain enough of the passion that initially inspired our career choice. It's n...
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: :22
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma believes in embracing many cultures and finding something to love in each of them.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WTJU, KGUA, WEZU, WTJU and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2008
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 14
In the collection of Bach piano pieces known as the Well-Tempered Clavier, you're most likely hearing a perfect piece of musical construction. But...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :25
There's an old saying that says it's not the destination, but the journey that counts. In the case of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, pianist Ema...
- Added: Feb 29, 2008
- Length: :26
Although musicians, critics and academics set high benchmarks for performing, most have come to terms with the fact that no performance will ever b...
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: :26
The Bach Suites for Solo Cello are the cellist's bible and yet their existence is shrouded in mystery. Cellist Steven Isserlis is happy to specula...
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: :22
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...
Bought by KHNS, WSKG, New Hampshire Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUHF and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2008
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 22
The Silk Road Tour is cellist Yo-Yo Ma's ongoing quest to discover the cultural connections covering the large swath of land between the Mediterran...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :32
Finding ways to keep music fresh is a performing musician's ongoing challenge, especially with a work they've played hundreds of times. Cellist Yo...
- Added: Dec 31, 2007
- Length: :28
